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355k Apex Legends PC Players Banned by Easy-Anti-Cheat since launch

Dominic Decoco

Dominic Decoco

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Oct 31, 2017
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https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/ayzbhj/respawn_check_in_382019/

Hello friends,
Before we head into the weekend we wanted to touch on some topics:

CHEATERS
As of today we've banned over 355K players on PC through Easy-Anti-Cheat. The service works but the fight against cheaters is an ongoing war that we'll need to continue to adapt to and be very vigilant about fighting. We take cheating very seriously and care deeply about the health of Apex Legends for all players.
We are working on improvements to combat cheaters and we're going to have to be pretty secretive about our plans. Cheaters are crafty and we don't want them to see us coming. With that said, we can share some high levels things we're doing:
  • We are reaching out and working directly with experts, both within and outside of EA, in this area that we can learn from.
  • Scaling up our anti-cheat team so we have more dedicated resources.
  • We are adding a report feature on PC to report cheaters in game that goes directly to Easy-Anti-Cheat.
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Prior to this response all talk about cheating within the subreddit was instantly shut down. There is no official way to report cheaters, though it certainly helped if you were streaming at the time. While talks continue regarding the Season 1 Pass and venturing into esports, this needs to be priority number one. While everyone is in the rabbit race to get noticed by viewers or even an organization, you have streamers with hacks enabled that are getting partnered while riding this Apex wave.

You got your run-of-the-mill aimbot/wallhacks/ability to see what loot is already spawned without stepping into that area
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https://livestreamfails.com/post/43002 Partnered streamer using aimbot+norecoil (deleted the original Twitch clip)











This is starting to feel like PUBG all over again, where cheating scrubs run wild. Blame Clara if old.
 
Zojirushi

Zojirushi

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Oct 26, 2017
3,293
How is cheating on PC not a solved problem yet? Every single game I swear to god lol
 
Fat4all

Fat4all

Woke up, got a money tag, swears a lot
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Oct 25, 2017
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cheaters never win

well, they do win, but eventually, they don't win

they stop win

until a game becomes less popular and cheaters don't get hunted as much, and then they start win again

ya know
 
mysteriousmage09

mysteriousmage09

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Oct 25, 2017
3,853
Jesus, battle royale games are the equivalence of lights to moths when it comes to hackers. They just can't stay away.
 
saint

saint

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Oct 27, 2017
709
I honestly don't understand the mindset of people who use hacks. like what the fuck is wrong with you? why would you do that to not only yourself but everyone else you're playing against? it baffled me every time I see a hacker.
 
AaronMT

AaronMT

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Oct 27, 2017
6,532
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Source engine. Dozens of tools and knowledge afloat. Lot of tool reuse from counter strike making it easy for hackers.
 

Deleted member 36578

Dec 21, 2017
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Wow. It really is pubg all over again. I don't play it myself but that sucks it's so prominent. Ban em all. Unfortunately f2p and all that.....
 
VariantX

VariantX

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Oct 25, 2017
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There are apparently some fuckers out there who just live to cheat, they don't even play games, they just log on to make others miserable during what should b a fun activity and only derive enjoyment from that.
 
GranddadFreeman

GranddadFreeman

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May 18, 2018
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Well, I was going to wait until the made a solo mode but it seems this game will be good and dead before that happens. At least the had uh, 50 million downloads or something.
 
Oreoleo

Oreoleo

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
1,946
Ohio
Yes, I've had a fair few encounters where I got sprayed down at mid-range+ suspiciously fast. Something needs to be done. I wouldn't mind seeing them put people who buy the battle pass into an exclusive queue or at least give them preferential matchmaking treatment over F2P'ers. Anyone who spends money on the game is far less likely to risk cheating and losing their account, so theoretically a separate queue would thin the herds considerably.
 
tyfon

tyfon

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Nov 2, 2017
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I never figured the motivation to cheat even.
If I had to cheat to win I would never feel good about it.

In any case, I'm happy I play this game on console.
 
GranddadFreeman

GranddadFreeman

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Oreoleo said:
Yes, I've had a fair few encounters where I got sprayed down at mid-range+ suspiciously fast. Something needs to be done. I wouldn't mind seeing them put people who buy the battle pass into an exclusive queue or at least give them preferential matchmaking treatment over F2P'ers. Anyone who spends money on the game is far less likely to risk cheating and losing their account, so theoretically a separate queue would thin the herds considerably.
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Hahaha oh buddy. Overwatch would like a word with you. And I don't mean cheating, just thinking paying money will deter assholes from being assholes
 

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Dreams-Visions said:
What was the giveaway that the person in the Tweet was cheating? I couldn't tell on my small screen.
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His gun is literally snapping to people before they are visible and he's shooting at the walls.

edit: oops, I thought you meant this tweet where he is complaining about cheaters himself!



Yeah, in his, you can see the outline and name of the player through walls.
 
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Doskoi Panda

Doskoi Panda

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Oct 27, 2017
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iirc the main reason most people cheated in PUBG was to make money. and that's why cheating was so prevalent for so long on PUBG for PC.
I don't know if there's a way to make money by grinding in this game, or to trade drops, so that's gonna cut down a lot of the long-term cheating.
With that said, the thing that complicates this is that Apex Legends is a free-to-play game. It's not hard to make an account 'for the lulz' just to hop on and cheat for a while with no real reason. If an account that you weren't particularly invested into gets banned, it's like whatever (until you get hardware banned), unlike with a game like PUBG where you (probably) paid money to play the game.
 
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Deleted member 3208

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You must be a pathetic loser to cheat in a multiplayer game.
 
rocket

rocket

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Oct 27, 2017
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Dev & and publishers traditionally will bring the Mjolnir down on cheaters on F2P title cause it cuts directly to their bottom line.
 

icecold1983

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Nov 3, 2017
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skeezx said:
over a quarter mil... smh

call me naive but i expected far less
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You dont realize just how wide spread cheating is in pc games. This is only the amt of people who actually got banned too. If you want an even more lulz worthy number, player unknown battlegrounds banned 13 million cheaters in a span of 69 weeks. I wonder what % of the playerbase that is. Currently they ban almost 100k cheaters every week
 
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Deleted member 4482

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given the player statistics we've been provided, making some VERY generous assumptions about players per platform and the proportion of cheaters that have been caught, one or two players in EVERY SINGLE GAME OF APEX LEGENDS ON PC are cheating
 
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